Owensboro Exclusives: A deep dive with Lacy Green – The Nashville Singer

March 13, 2021 | 12:08 am

Updated March 12, 2021 | 11:42 pm

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Visit Owensboro and Owensboro Times are partnering to present a series of exclusive interviews, ranging from behind-the-scenes content to heartfelt stories. This installment features Lacy Green, a Nashville singer/songwriter. 

Lacy Green is a Nashville-based songwriter being featured in the upcoming “Nashville Songwriter” series event at the Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame & Museum. This month’s event will take place at 7 p.m. Thursday and will also feature artists Madison Lewis and Adam Wood. (A limited number of tickets are available here.)

To watch Green’s full video interview and get a sneak peek of next week’s performance, click here.

Green, who’s participated in countless writers’ rounds in Nashville, said this type of show is exciting and much different from a typical concert. 

“What’s really cool about these kinds of shows is not only the intimacy and getting to hear the song right where it started, but you also get insight into how a song is written,” she said. “It’s exciting for both the writers and the audience to sit in a more personal setting and hear the stories of how a song goes from being written in your bedroom to being put on a record.”

Green said she’s loved writing, reading, and music her whole life — so songwriting was the perfect intersection of all her interests. She first started writing poems at 8 years old before picking up the guitar at 12 and beginning to put together songs. 

“When I started, they were really terrible,” she said. “It’s been a learning process ever since.”

When it comes to songwriting in Nashville, there are two sides to it: artistry and business.

“Once you’ve hopped off the plane or unpacked your U-Haul, you go out and start planting seeds, making connections,” Green said. “Sometimes it’s really complicated and convoluted and other times it’s just as simple as you’re sitting in a bar one night and somebody hears something and says ‘hey, I love that song.’’’ 

Songwriting is a business that involves collaboration, creativity, and hard work, but Green said each song has its own journey that makes the process special.

Green can be found at the Bluebird Café on any given week, and she said the iconic listening room is “hands down” her favorite spot in Nashville and a special place for anybody that loves songwriting. 

The Bluebird Café has gained international recognition as a songwriter’s performance space which has seen iconic chart-topping songs across all genres. 

“One thing that’s great about it is how unchanged it is, even as it has become well-known,” Green said. “It’s humble and it’s magical. You can feel the legacy of great songs.”

In her interview, Green performs a song called “Something Worth Singing About,”  which she released with her band The Wonderful Nobodies earlier last year. She said it’s about holding onto and celebrating the small things. 

“I wrote this song on a random Tuesday when I thought I had nothing to say,” she said. “It might be small, but there’s always something worth singing about, something beautiful.” 

March 13, 2021 | 12:08 am

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